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Rabbi at interfaith 9/11 event

JTA
Posted on Thursday August 31, 2006

A Reform Jewish leader will join a Muslim and an Eastern Orthodox cleric in a prayer for peace at an Arab American event marking the Sept. 11 attacks.

Rabbi David Saperstein, the director of Reform’s Religious Action Center, will join Imam Mohamed Majid, who leads a Washington area mosque, and Rev. George Rados, who leads an Eastern Orthodox Church, at the Arab American Institute’s fifth anniversary commemorations of the terrorist attacks.

The commemorations come in the middle of the institute’s Sept. 10-12 national leadership conference, and will include briefings on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and on Israel’s recent war in Lebanon.

Confirmed speakers include Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.), who is Jewish and who is a likely candidate in his party’s 2008 presidential primaries.